These are all useful both for highlighting for calling your attention back to something in the document but also for editing. You can also, if you don't like doing colors, you can use Underline or Strikethrough. So you use the tool either way to highlight text in a PDF document. You can also just have that turned off there, select text, assign it something and now it's not doing it, this is not on and I can select another color. So it is kind of like a tool where you can toggle the highlighting. If I want to unhighlight text I just select that a second time. So I can highlight any text that I want, like that. I can actually highlight other text and you see that it is highlighted. You can turn it on and you can see it is blue now.

Now you can also select Color so you can change the color of the highlight. I can simply click the Marker button here and it will highlight that text. But you can also highlight text and you have that up here in the Toolbar.

If you have a PDF open and it's a normal PDF, not protected in any special way, you can select text and copy text from it. I'm using Preview version 7 here and I'm going to show you how Annotations work. Let's take a look at using Annotations in Preview. Video Transcript: Hi, this is Gary with. Check out Annotating Documents With Preview at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.

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